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TIL that the music used in the “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy advertisement was pirated

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ReD4 TIL Lockheed Skunk works produced the first pair of working stealth aircraft despite not even being invited to compete. Everybody else besides Northrop failed or gave up, but Lockheed managed to build a pair of working stealth aircraft for only $35 million by using leftover parts from other programs
l779B TIL of the Wallstreet bombing of 1920 that killed more than 30 people and injuring more than 300. A driver stopped the animal and it's load near the U.S Assay Office in the heart of Wallstreet and disappeared into the crowd. Within Minutes exploded into a hail of metal fragments and remains unsolved
oZAR TIL Audie Murphy, when asked after the war why he had seized the machine gun of a burning M10 tank destroyer and taken on an entire company of German infantry, he replied simply, “They were killing my friends.”
7rnO7 TIL measuring tapes have many hidden features, such as a scribe.
wdkJ TIL that in North Korea you are forced to choose one of 28 government-approved haircuts.